Episode 56 - The One Where Mark Hamill is Not Your Father

On this week's episode, Google makes a (few) appearances prior to its October 4th event. Also, Chris has a new addition to announce! 

This week's Five Favorites: 

1. Nest’s home security system costs $499 and comes with magnetic door sensors [The Verge]

2. Meet The Really Cheap Google Home Mini and the really expensive Chromebook Pixel 3 [ARS Technica]

3. Bose adds Google Assistant to top noise-canceling headphone [CNet]

4. Apple Watch Series 3 has LTE problems: How to cancel your preorder [VentureBeat]

5. Hot Topic: Why Google is spending $1.1 billion to ‘acqhire’ 2,000 HTC engineers [Recode]

Honorable Mention(s)

• Netflix Sent the Best Cease-and-Desist Letter to This Unauthorized Stranger Things Bar

DISHonorable Mention(s)

• Facebook’s reliance on software algorithms keeps getting the company into trouble

Five Favorites' Tweet(s) of The Week 

• @HamillHimself
  • Suggested by Martin Lieberman 

Use the hashtag #FiveFavorites to share YOUR favorite stories each and every week - and YOU may be included on the show (including our new tweet of the week feature).